[PDF.97sr] Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

[PDF.ps36] Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

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 | #684053 in eBooks |  2011-03-08 |  2011-03-08 | File type: PDF

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Adagio: An act of remembrance|By Bahij Bawarshi|The chapters of Wendy Lesser's book on the string quartets of Shostakovich carry the same titles, and are arranged in the same order, as those of the six consecutive Adagio movements of the Fifteenth Quartet: Elegy - Serenade - Intermezzo - Nocturne - Funeral March - Epilogue. As I glanced at the Contents when I first opened the b| |“Music for Silenced Voices is a sensitive and enlightening meditation. . . . Lesser, in other words, is giving Shostakovich back to his listeners.”—Paul Mitchinson, Washington Post (Paul Mitchinson The Washington Post)

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. Music for Silenced Voices looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of his fifteen quartets, the works which his widow characterized as a "diary, the story of his soul."...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets   |  Wendy Lesser. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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